Companies

“Good companies will meet needs; great companies will create markets.”

“Even people within systems don't often recognize what whole-system goal they are serving. "To make profits", most corporations would say, but that's just a rule, a necessary condition to stay in the game. What is the point of the game? To grow, to increase market share, to bring the world (customers, suppliers, regulators) more and more under the control of the corporation, so that its operations becomes ever more shielded from uncertainty.”

“I don't think that corporations are these big bogeymen that a lot of people paint them to be.  …  A corporation is a group of people, and if you want to come together for profit or nonprofit, that's your business—whatever you want to do.”

“It appears to me that the atmosphere of the temple of Justice is polluted by the presence of such things as these companies.”

“A company is perfectly responsible in every sense.”

“In matters where a company is not restrained by Parliament they have a right to make reasonable regulations; but it will always be a question whether their regulations are reasonable or not.”

“The office of director … a man ought not to fill without qualification.”

“The director is really a watch-dog, and the watch-dog has no right without the knowledge of his master to take a sop from a possible wolf.”

“In their desire to check dishonest and reckless trading Courts must be careful not to put tighter fetters on companies than the Legislature has authorised.”

“I do not wish in any way to depart from the principle that a wrongdoing director, whether he be morally or legally wrong, should be made liable for the highest amount which could have been obtained from the property wrongly taken by him while it was in his hands.”